Changes/MongoDB Removal

Summary

Fedora has determined that the Server Side Public Licensev1 (SSPL) is not a Free Software License. Therefore, we need to drop MongoDB from Fedora or never update it again. Never updating it would bring security issues, hence we decided to remove it.

Owner

• Name: Patrik Novotný
• Email: panovotn@redhat.com
• Release notes owner:

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 30
• Last updated: 2019-02-19
• Tracker bug: #1677379
• Release notes tracker: #300

Detailed Description

All mongodb packages need to be dropped, as well as mongodb container and modules.

• Full list of packages to drop
  • mongodb
  • mongodb-server
  • mongodb-test

• Full list of packages to adapt
  • condor
  • golang-github-go-mgo-mgo
  • fawkes
  • fawkes-devenv
  • mongo-c-driver
  • mongo-cxx-driver
  • mongo-tools
  • mongodb-test
  • perl-MongoDB – adapted in 2.0.3-1.fc30
  • python-beaker
  • python-pymongo
  • rubygem-database_cleaner
  • rubygem-mongo
  • rubygem-mongoid
  • php-alcaeus-mongo-php-adapter, php-mongodb

Scope

• Proposal owners:

• Other developers: adapt their packages not to depend on mongodb (see Detailed Description)

• Release engineering: #Releng issue number (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed)
  • List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
• Blocks product? product

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)